Verizon's map goes white in California as service goes down

It might just be the result of some operations merging from Alltel into Verizon, but reports have been coming in from California, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio about Verizon's service having been down for hours. The carrier says that service should be fully restored in 6 to 8 hours, which takes us into Monday morning. If you are a Verizon customer in the affected area, how's this (not) working for you-how long has your cellular service been down?

I called my friend right after this was put up that works on Verizon's network team, as I work with them from Qualcomm sometimes. There is no service interruption for Verizon customers. Alltel accounts that were converted or old port in Alltel customer numbers that our Verizon are the one's having issues. Network is up and running. Funny how information get's skewed or blown out of proportion.

I live in Toledo(northwest), Ohio and i didn't even know service was down. It was fine for me all night (work 3rds), and within my work, it's hard to get a signal (big ol' metallic factory), and i didnt notice anything wrong.

HUGE outages in WI...I'm an hour west of the Twin Cities and call failure rate was about 98%. It's down to 25% now but nearly every converted alltel customer who was a friend of mine was having this problem. I work for an authorized agent of big red and store reps from all over the state were seeing this

Haha, you guys are lame. Service went down in San Francisco and you guys flooded the article. And now look at this. Loosing service in California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio is okay. You guys are really in love with Verizon if you guys can rationalize this situation.

You Ravensfan55, have an Iphone 3GS, and bash on VZW any chance you get. And all of a sudden you have a Droid in SF (which is where I was when the outages was happening for LTE deployment testing for our new Qualcomm chipset) and Both AT&T and Verizon services were working perfectly. I am using a Droid Eris atm on VZW and Iphone 3GS on AT&T.

All networks are vulnerable to service interruptions the big four are the most reliable. This is the first multi-state VZW outage I've seen in a long time. . .Much less embarrassing then the recent T-Mobile service issues.

"The carrier says that service should be fully restored in 6 to 8 hours". if that's true and Verizon did indeed say this, then it should not say that the article is unofficial. you fail again phonearena

It's unofficial because it didn't happen, and they're is no proof that it happened. There was mentioned that old former Alltel numbers (That means if the number WAS ever and Alltel number) or converted accounts, Or Alltel numbers in the Verizon system, during conversion in those areas would have outages till conversion. Those areas affected less than 1% of Verizon subscribers and those people were notified in advanced when it was happening. Through the mail, email (if on file) and through free text message over a week ago. They're was no real network outages, just account conversions for those few people in those areas.

after all this stuff that phonearena has about verizon possibly being bad im beggining to believe that phone arena (which has a blue theme) may have a bias against verizon... its ok phonearena, but atleast let us know that you guys like AT&T more

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